Icons are essential in any graphical user interface. They are effective visual cues for performing tasks or navigating to a certain location. There are many resources online that can help and inspire you in your own icon designs and – in this collection – we share some of the best tutorials on the topic.

In this article, you’ll find a wide selection of tutorials and resources to help you learn about designing icons.

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Great list! I was actually looking for good icon tutorials the other day, as I need to get more experienced with the Adobe software I just received a month ago. There seems to be way too many pencil or RSS feed icon tutorials out there…thanks for adding this list with some variety!

In my opinion, designing icons is time consuming but very rewarding once you’ve finished it. I know that sooner or later I’m going to design one but for now I’m very thankful to the designers that give away their amazing icons for free.

Thank you for this comprehensive post. This will be my first stop whenever I need to learn how to design an icon.

corina

Gary

Icons were used by the ignorant (illiterate) populations of very early peoples to communicate. Long ago, a much better visual communication method was developed, written LANGUAGE! Repeated tests have shown that icons are much harder to locate than words. Maybe it is developer’s condescending opinion of users that perpetuates icons. How is a bitty trashcan icon easier to locate than the word “delete”?

Hi Jacob
Nice collection.Thanks for sharing
Would benefit and will also serve as great reference for upcoming designers and who are aspiring to become one.
In all great collection keep up the good work.
Thanks.
Anna.